Saturday, November 8, 2014

Battle Group Barbarossa: Soviet Armour

Having finished morphing my Battle Group Kursk Soviets into a late war force, I've now pretty much done the same for Barbarossa. Adding to the 20 T-26 tanks I finished painting last week, I've just finished 7 BT-5s and a monster T-35.

All the models are 15mm Zvezda kits from their Art of Tactic game. These are great little kits. Very easy to put together and with lovely crisp moulding. The biggest down side is the lack of open hatches and crew figures, and all the tanks look very clean and Spartan, with no stowage items. Of course, I could have just added tarps etc made from Greenstuff, but decided not to on these as Soviet vehicles from 1941 generally do look pretty lacking in clutter from most photos I've seen.

Zvezda make a whole series of little boxes of individual 15mm vehicles for their Art of Tactic game. Just remember that infantry and artillery are 1/72 scale in their game, vehicles are 1/100 (ie 15mm). You can get them all via Plastic Soldier Company's webstore.

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